Team manager Daniel Hespeler: “We’ve built a fantastically talented squad of gutsy, aggressive and open minded cross country riders, who are some of the very best in the world. We set the team’s structure up for ultimate performance leading into the next Olympic cycle and made some fundamental changes in how the team operates too. Signing with Shimano was the missing piece in the puzzle and, from the riders to the mechanics, we’re all stoked to be working with XTR and Shimano from here on into 2020.”